Title:
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Secondary control for reactive power sharing in droop-controlled islanded microgrids
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Author:
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Micallef, A.; Apap, Maurice; Spiteri Staines, C.; Guerrero Zapata, Josep Maria
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Sistemes, Automàtica i Informàtica Industrial; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SEPIC - Sistemes Electrònics de Potència i de Control |
Abstract:
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This paper focuses on the islanded operation of microgrids. In this mode of operation, the microsources are required to cooperate autonomously to regulate the local grid
voltage and frequency. Droop control is typically used to achieve this autonomous voltage and frequency regulation. However,
droop control has real and reactive power sharing limitations when there are mismatches between the microsources. This
paper analyses the effect due to mismatches in the power line impedances connecting the source inverters to the microgrid.
From the simulations results obtained, it was shown that the reactive power demand is unequally shared between the microsource inverters when there are mismatches between the power line impedances. To achieve equal reactive power sharing between the inverters, an external loop requiring low bandwidth communications was implemented in a central controller.
Simulation results are presented showing the feasibility of the proposed solution in achieving reactive power sharing between
the inverters connected to the microgrid. |
Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies::Energia elèctrica -islanded operation -low bandwidth communication -microgrids -reactive power sharing -Energia elèctrica |
Rights:
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Document type:
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
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